Bob Greene Quotes

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.

You can determine what your future holds based on how much time and energy you spend working on yourself now. Find out what it is you want, and go after it as if your life depends on it. Why? Because it does.

A lot of times I had some problems, but I always had the passion and the personal motivation to keep going, to keep working hard, keep fighting for the things that really motivates me. That's all.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Grit is that 'extra something' that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

Determination gets you a long way.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

The key to all things is determination.